Word: priore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Prior to last weekend, the Harvard men's tennis team (13-5 overall, 6-0 EITA, 4-0 Ivy) had managed this feat only twice, blanking Penn, 6-0 and Columbia...
...numbers are really up at grad schools," says Lynn Wehnes, an OCS assistant director for careers in government and politics. Wehnes says that admissions committees are reviewing "in some cases twice as many as applied there prior to the recession...
This week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Payne v. Tennessee about the value of "victim-impact evidence." On two prior occasions, the high court ruled that at the time of sentencing in capital cases, it is improper to introduce testimony dealing with the impact of a crime on a victim's family. The Bush Administration is sending no less a figure than Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to the court to argue for Tennessee's position allowing such impact evidence. After last week's ruling in the McCleskey case, many legal experts are concerned that...
According to council members, the new policy is merely an attempt to make Faculty rules more precise. Prior to the council's action, University research policy was vague and could not be applied to particular circumstances...
...Maybe 10 years ago, we had few guidelines because operations were small and informal," Rosovsky said in an interview prior to the council decision. "Now things have grown. The government is interested. Gradually we have built up procedures. There are more explicit and formal procedures today which is a good thing...